Shingle and stave dressing- machine



ELIsHA sUTER, OE ROBERTSON COUNTY, TENNESSEE.

SHINGLE AND STAVE DRESSING MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 6,045, dated January 23, 18479'.

To all whom t may concern Be it known that I, ELIsHA SUTER, of the county of Robertson and State of Tennessee, have invented a new and useful Machine for Shaving Staves and Shingles, called Suters Stave and Shingle Machine, which is de-4 scribed as follows, reference being had to the annexed drawings of the same, making part of this specification, in which- No. l is a top sectional view of bed pieces A B, and tables D D, D E with other parts to be described hereafter. No. 2 is a side view of the inclined plane used in the shingle department. a, is the head, Z? is the shoulder against which the ends of the shingles are placed to be shaved. No. 3, is a to-p view of said plane. of the face, b the higher diversion. No. 4, is the table of the stave department inverted. a 0;, are wheels on which it moves when in operation, b b, show the ends of the large screw bolts which secure the knives, described hereafter. G, is the throat where the chips escape. No. 5, is a top view of said table, a is the groove, b, is a cut in the face for bedding the underv knife, c is the throat mentioned above. No. 6, is a top view of the table belonging to the shingle department, a, is the groove, b, is a large groove in which the inclined plane No. 2 moves. No. 7 is a side view'of the shaft and arms. A, is the shaft in an upright position, b b, are arms, to the under side of which, d d, are rollers supported by round bolts extending up into said arms, representedby, f f; a, is the top bearing of the shaft, g, is the lower bearing. Nol 8, is a top view of the shafty and large quadrangular wheel inverted. A, is the shaft, a, its lower bearing, b, b, b, b, the arms. d Z d d are the braces. c c' c c, are the rollers which run through the small circular grooves shown above. Nos. 5 and 6 f f f f are the hands@ fr m the bolts securing the rollers. No. 9, is a side or edge view of one o f the hand irons. No. 10 shows the face of said hand iron. No. 11 one of the several rollers or small wheels employed-.all being the same shape and size. No. 12, is the knifey used in shaving staves-the upper and under ones have the same shape and parts, c is edge of the blades d, the back, b b, the heads a a, cuts by which thevblade is reversed from the heads, in order to give it a downward set. e e, are holes for bolts to pass through, f f f f, are holes fer the temper serews te Werk-V a shows the lower diversion' No. 13, is the shingle knife-the same in form and construction only straight on thev edge. No. 14, one of t-he guards intervened between the heads of theknives hereafter described, .72 ce b, are holes or apertures corresponding with those described No. 1 2. No. 1 5 is one of thelarge bolt sorewsused No. 1 6 is one of the small temper screws for setting the knives. No. 1( is one of the footings for the temper screws to stand on in the shingle depart-ment described here-y after, a, is an aperture for the bolts topass through in fastening the knives to the tables.

N o, 18 is a perspective View of the machine.

ready for operatiom'the posts or that which supports the girder being omitted.

A B and A o are the anso-r bed pleas on which the machine rests. They are of hewn timbers of the proper length and of suiiircient depth to elevate .the facesof the tables te a level with the underside ef the large quadrangular wheel connected with the shaft. They are crossed and connected to* gether in their centers; and f by means of proper cuts their upper surfaces brought level with each other, forming afoundation for the tablesl to rest. on. The foot of `the shaft also stands o'n the center o f the, sills, in an opening cut some depth down from the top surface as seen at, e, No. 1.

Dis the shaft standing in en ,upright .p0- sition, its foot resting onthe k center of the sills, and its upper ybearing in a-large girder above as seen "at E, broken off at each end. Near the lower end of the said shaft is a quadrangul'ar wheen con structed by passing .u

two long arms transversely through its .center, thus presenting the four arms seenat a a a a. f

There ere then four braees b Z bxextelid- I ed between seid arms end seelired by ,merl tse and tenen-these seppert the .ernilswhen in operation. The arms project out beyond the braces to give` space for forming theI hands seen at c c 0 c. These handsaremade by forming a) semi-circ1ilar lmob on the f sides of the arms just at the ends-.Tthey are faced with iron see Nos. V9, 10,*and ,Catch yagainst the endsof the staves, .or Lthe head yof the plane in shingle ldepartmentforcing large shaft wheel.` It has two small wheels attached to the under side at the opposite edges, seen at m m. These wheels rest on the sill A B, and facilitate the motion of the tables. partment-is suspended by a pin at CZ, and

moves'on wheels precisely as the table F Gri described above. f

M is the stave knives (see No. 12) to arrange them for work a cut is made in the table just before the po-int where the hands c c c c, leave the table. The under knife is settled in this cut with the edge tending upward above the face ofthe bench so as to take off a shaving from the under side of each stave as it passes over it, acting on the principle of the carpenters plane. The guardsi are placed on the heads of the knife, with the apertures corresponding. These are intervened to prevent the staves from interfering with the screws and bolts. The upper knife is placed on the guards with the temper screws (one at each corner) passing through the apertures of the guards, and resting their points on the bottom knife, and servingto keep the knives at a proper distance; and also to, change the angle of the upper knife. u u u u mark the temper screws, and r r 1 1 the large bolt screws which pass down through the heads of both knives andthe guards and table; and Vfasten with a screw top on the under side the table.

n, is a throat or aperture cutthrough the table for the chips taken off by the under knife to escape.

o fv, is the groove out circularly through the face of thewtable near the inner edge, through which the rollers described above pass successively as the large shaft wheel revolves, entering at 0, and disengaging at fu.

W 1s a large straightA groove cut in the tableFI-I, for the inclined plane towork in. S is the inclined plane, which works in the groove W and'on which the shingles are placed to be shaved. The face of the Mplane has a higher and a lower side,-s is y the higher andr, is the lower. This planeV isv inclined from the shoulder, as described in No. 2, to the fore end,fand^by that `means gives taper to the shingles. g, isa small cord attached to the head of the plane s.'

y, is an aperture through the tablethrough which the cord passes. u, is a weight at tached to the end of said cord, by which said- F H is t-he table of the shingle deplane is drawn back after being carried forward by the hands of the large shaft wheel.

X is the shingle knife, only one being employed. It is constructed like the stave p knives, only straight while they are curved on the edges. It is of sufficient length to admit of two shingles passingunder it on the plane, side by side. At the place'where it stands are two footings of iron seen in No. 17, with apertures through them for the large bolts to pass in securing the knife to its place. The said footings are bedded in the face of the table. z' z' are guards which are intervened between the table and theI in the guards and resting on the footings;

and serve to setand regulate the knife.`

Z is the lever or sweep by which the machine is propelled.

Operation: The machine being in operation from animal or other power the large 1 shaft or quadrangular wheel moving from left to right, as .the attendant faces the tables a stave is placed on the table with one end immediately before the edges of the knives, and the other end within the range or sweep of the hands, which move successively over and close to the face of the table where it is caught by one of the hands and forced between the knives, which cut` a shaving oftl abo-ve and below simultaneously. It is lodged in the knives till displaced by a second which is shaved in` like manner and takes its place till dislodged by a third`,and soon. Thus a succession of pieces is kept on the table to be shaved.` `When the hands have forced a stave forward till the roller comes to the last turn of the groove it throws the table back a little, and thus disengages itself from the end of the stave.

` To shave shingles-apiece is placed on4 the'lower side `of the face of the inclined plane, when the hand of the guadrangular wheel catches against the head of the plane forces it down the groove with the piece to be shaved on it; with the'hinder ends braced against the shoulder of the plane, to prevent it from slipping backit is thus forced under the knife Vand one side shaved. The

"armfis then disengagedxfrom the plane by the turn in the groove-the planel is drawn back by the weight attached to it, ready for another stroke, when the piece with one side shaved is placed by hand on the higher side of the plane with the shaved side down; at the same time a second piece is placed on the' lowerside of the plane, and both are made to pass under the knife simultaneously in Which operation the first is nished and suffered to drop from the table-theplane slides back as beforethe unfinishedshingle is turned over and changed to the higher side of the plane to be iinished, While-another piece is placed on the lovver side for action. Thus two pieces are kept o-n the plane, one being finished every stroke, or forward motion of the plane.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to receive by Letters Patent is-` Y l. The construction and application of the quadrangular Wheel, with its appurtenances viz. the rollers and hands to the use and purposes above described. 1

2. I also claim the invention of the sliding or vibrating table, and its application with its appurtenances tothe uses ascribeb to them above.

3. I too claim the application clined plane to the purposes described above-and- 4. Finally I claim the abovev described construction and arrangement of the Whole machine taken in combination, and applied 25 to the purposes ascribed to them above.

, ELISHA SUTER.

Witnesses:

A. M. GREER, F, M. HAMLETT.

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